Graduate Marketing and Communications Officer

Full job description
Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade E. SCP 11 £28,142 SCP 16 £30,518

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Tameside One


Assessment Date: 8th & 9th September 2025

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative Graduate Communications Officer to support the work of the central corporate communications team. The role has a focus on social media creating content, managing and monitoring our platforms as well as supporting the development and delivery of communications campaigns and messaging that promote council services, enhance civic pride, and position the borough as a great place to live, work, invest, and visit.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a creative and hard-working team who have focus on telling the story and experiences of our employees and residents from their view and voice.

About You

We are looking for someone with strong written and verbal communication skills who can produce clear, engaging content for a range of audiences and platforms. A key skill will be the ability to generate fresh ideas for campaigns and storytelling that resonate with our local communities.

A recent degree and a genuine interest in local government and public service are essential. We are also looking for someone that takes initiative, shows curiosity, and is eager to learn and grow. We need a person who is well organised and works well with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to achieve shared goals

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Jordanna Rawlinson on 07970824529 or Jordanna.rawlinson@tameside.gov.uk